At its height, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted well-established patterns of migration within Australia. Reports of a regional renaissance suggested city dwellers were moving to regional areas in droves. The governments of Tasmania, South Australia and the Northern Territory were also keen to promote new migration flows to reverse long-standing declines in their shares of the national population.
That’s really interesting, I would have never thought “ABS advised this large increase was mainly due to people updating their addresses with Medicare during mass vaccination rollouts”